Kinahan. — On the Clays of Ireland. 155 



Fire-clay Ware. — Flue linings are extensively imported, principally from Chester 

 and Glasgow, chief sizes 9 and 12 inches high, prices 3d. and id., ahout 200 to the 

 ton. Chimney-pots, 1, 2, and 3 feet high, principally from Glasgow, plain, moulded, 

 and ornamented, from Is. bd. to 2s. 9d. each; freight, according to season, from 4s. 6d. 

 to 5s. 6^., Chester ; while the Scotch freight would be about 10s. Scotch drain-pipes 

 3 feet long ; Chester 2 feet 4", 6", 9", and 12" in diameter; prices, i\d., %\d., 8±d., 

 and lid. in Dublin. Traps, dill's closets, &c., are also imported from Scotland and 

 Chester.] 



FERMANAGH. 



Bricks are made at Neuiownbatler, for use at Clones, six miles, 

 distance ; River Army, ten miles from Enniskillen, to supply that 

 town ; bricks, however, are very generally made all through the 

 flats about Loughs Erne, 8s. to 12s. per 1000, 9x4}x 2§, weight 

 6 lbs. ; alluvial flats near Lisnaskea, 12s. to 15s., 8f x 4 x 2f , weight 

 6 lbs. 



In the flats east of Upper Lough Erne there are considerable 

 deposits of brick-clay extensively burned by the inhabitants, 

 principally for local use. At Arney Bridge some kilns were 

 worked by the late Lord Enniskillen for many years. In 1880 

 were turned out, between 1st April and 1st November, 402,795 

 pipes of different sizes, 100,000 bricks, 29,200 flooring- and roofing- 

 tiles, 120 yards of ridge-tile, 1023 doz. flower-pots, 100 doz. saucers, 

 and a few other articles, such as chimney-pots, &c. — (g. s. m.) 



Belleek. — For some years china, including a peculiar glazed 

 kind, Belleek ivare, delft, &c, have been manufactured in this town. 

 The best w r are is made of kaolin, manufactured from a felspar vein 

 in the neighbourhood, while impurer felspar for the common ware 

 is imported. (See Introduction, p. 144.) 



Fire-clay. — (See Co. Cavan, ante, p. 149). 



GALWAY. 



Tobacco-pipes and coarse pottery were formerly made at 

 Oalway, Creggs, and Diinsandle, from clay obtained in the respec- 

 tive vicinities. An excellent clay w r as discovered some ten years 

 ago in the neighbourhood of Menloe Castle. 



Brick at Annaghdown, east of Lough Corrib, yellow, 16s. to 

 21s. per 1000, 8§ x 4 x 2f , weight 5| lbs. 



In the flats near Clare-Gralway and Athenry coarse bricks are 

 made. In the early English Castle of Clare-Galway bricks were 



